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all of the education efforts for science and engineering and technology and math, stem education that is going on in this country. .. i wanted to put this in the context of document talk specifically as the details of the next. first of all, in the context of immigration reform, there's a vast majority of americans that believe. one is a legal immigration system not working for the country. despite what exists about legal immigration and how to deal with that reality in the real debate that needs to happen, one thing everyone agrees on is legal immigration is good for this country, an important part of our history, critical part of our future and illegal immigration system in place right now does not work for america and really does not work for the 21st century. i support family-based immigration. but to my parents came to this country. i do want to do anything that undermines it. in the 21st century we can no longer have a system where the truly less than 10% of the people who come here do so based on the skills they bring to this country. think about this for a moment. if i say to
all of the education efforts for science and engineering and technology and math, stem education that is going on in this country. .. i wanted to put this in the context of document talk specifically as the details of the next. first of all, in the context of immigration reform, there's a vast majority of americans that believe. one is a legal immigration system not working for the country. despite what exists about legal immigration and how to deal with that reality in the real debate that...
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education workforce and income security teams in washington, d.c. having received a ba in political science from west virginia university and a masters in russian studies from georgetown university, lori has been with gao since 1984 leading a wide rage of efforts improve and effectiveness of federal programs. lori's work has included evaluations of federal worker training, protection of for place quality programs as well as assessments of efforts to retake the integrity of social security numbers. laurie is also -- efforts to enhance training opportunities and career development to the gao step. with that let me turn it over to enter spent as jessica said the real id act represent significant investment against identity theft and fraud. since 2005 in complying with real id, the state made tremendous progress in meeting requirements in a green securities at for driver's license. just give you a brief smattering of what that looks like, in 2007 you would have about 23 states that were confirming immigration status before issuing a driver's license. a
education workforce and income security teams in washington, d.c. having received a ba in political science from west virginia university and a masters in russian studies from georgetown university, lori has been with gao since 1984 leading a wide rage of efforts improve and effectiveness of federal programs. lori's work has included evaluations of federal worker training, protection of for place quality programs as well as assessments of efforts to retake the integrity of social security...
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we say that training and education must be expanded to build the workforce we need for a 21st century global economy. and we call for an expanded focus on ports, exports and advanced manufacturing to great more jobs in america and reduce our trade imbalance. on all of these issues we took aggressive action. our conference of mayors engage direct with the obama administration and congress through every step of fiscal cliff negotiations. at the national press club on september 15, we released a letter to vice president scott smith, our second vice president kevin johnson and i drafted, 131 of our mayors sign, calling on congress to adopt a bipartisan and balanced approach deficit reduction by incorporating spending cuts with additional revenue. we took the same message to both political conventions and to the presidential debate where mayors of both parties were active and visible participants, speaking for commonsense solutions to the pending fiscal crisis. in just one week after the election, our leadership came to washington. we met with the vice president biden in the white house, t
we say that training and education must be expanded to build the workforce we need for a 21st century global economy. and we call for an expanded focus on ports, exports and advanced manufacturing to great more jobs in america and reduce our trade imbalance. on all of these issues we took aggressive action. our conference of mayors engage direct with the obama administration and congress through every step of fiscal cliff negotiations. at the national press club on september 15, we released a...
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relatives to travel for religious, cultural, educational purposes. i think that's a good thing. i hope that you'll find a way to continue that and to continue more innovative approaches to deal with change their akaka with regard to the united nations for a minute that p.a. was granted unesco in 2011 and then again in 2012. full membership by the general assembly that and many of ours is an impediment to the investigations that have to happen. the general assembly is have a habit of doing this over the years and decades remember in the 70's the designated the plo as a representative to really spent time in southern africa. they had designated one of the parties as the sole and authentic representative of the people, and that did nothing but delay meaningful negotiations between the parties that need it to happen. from your position at the state department, to what measures would be take to ensure that our position, the congress's position is to deny funding to some of these u.n. organs if such reference is made. i know there is some wiggle room for the administration to deal wit
relatives to travel for religious, cultural, educational purposes. i think that's a good thing. i hope that you'll find a way to continue that and to continue more innovative approaches to deal with change their akaka with regard to the united nations for a minute that p.a. was granted unesco in 2011 and then again in 2012. full membership by the general assembly that and many of ours is an impediment to the investigations that have to happen. the general assembly is have a habit of doing this...
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it means education, it means health care, it means the national institutes of health, it means a whole -- it means law enforcement, it means a whole host of things that we care about in our lives everyday, across the board cuts, indiscriminate, without thinking about what the consequences are. only when it comes to the northeast. so i want my colleagues to understand that personally this senator will judge the future by how we are ultimately responded to. we already feel chagrined, but it is what it is. we need to act today. adoption of this amendment would not only create an across the board cut that has consequences to critical things americans broadly define on and does it indiscriminately, but also sets us further back because we would have to go back to the house again, and delays and more delays. well, i want look at the face of any american, whether in my state or anyplace in the country, and say you know, your government has abandoned you, you'll have to wait. i can't look at a business owner who is making a life decision about whether -- what little they have they can reinvest
it means education, it means health care, it means the national institutes of health, it means a whole -- it means law enforcement, it means a whole host of things that we care about in our lives everyday, across the board cuts, indiscriminate, without thinking about what the consequences are. only when it comes to the northeast. so i want my colleagues to understand that personally this senator will judge the future by how we are ultimately responded to. we already feel chagrined, but it is...
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there's never been a stronger correlation between having a good educationing and getting a job. so that's critical. we need to change our immigration policies. i'm sure we'll talk about that in a minute because there's a lot of, in my judgment, good things coming out of congress finally on immigration. we need to invest in the infrastructure, it'll create a lot of jobs in the short term and lay the groundwork for good jobs across the long term, and we need a new national energy policy. if you look back over time, the two most important numbers for an economy to you can is seed are the cost of money and the cost of energy, and we have an opportunity to keep the cost of energy down in this country and do it in a clean and green way. so these are the kind of things that i think we need to focus on to make the country more competitive, and these are the things that'll create good jobs. >> >> host: here's a headline in "the washington post," we saw a bipartisan group come up with a framework for immigration reform yesterday. how does competitiveness fact or to have into this? what sp
there's never been a stronger correlation between having a good educationing and getting a job. so that's critical. we need to change our immigration policies. i'm sure we'll talk about that in a minute because there's a lot of, in my judgment, good things coming out of congress finally on immigration. we need to invest in the infrastructure, it'll create a lot of jobs in the short term and lay the groundwork for good jobs across the long term, and we need a new national energy policy. if you...
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they have spent their whole lives being educated here. they have gotten up every morning at school, put their hand on their heart and pledged allegiance to that great flag, believing this is their country, too. they deserve a chance to make it such. marco rubio of florida and i have worked on this dream act issue. he said something that i remember and would like to recount. he said this isn't an immigration issue. this is an issue of compassion, humanitarianism. these were kids when they were brought here. they deserve this chance. so i know that this will be included in any immigration reform, and i certainly hope that we will pass it and pass it soon. we spoke to the president last night, senator schumer and hi a conversation with him. tomorrow he will be making a statement in nevada about immigration. he's committed to immigration reform. he's committed to fixing this system. he told us that what we're setting out to do is generally consistent with what he wants to see done, but he did tell us get it done. don't let this drag out again
they have spent their whole lives being educated here. they have gotten up every morning at school, put their hand on their heart and pledged allegiance to that great flag, believing this is their country, too. they deserve a chance to make it such. marco rubio of florida and i have worked on this dream act issue. he said something that i remember and would like to recount. he said this isn't an immigration issue. this is an issue of compassion, humanitarianism. these were kids when they were...
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and our goal is to educate people so that this great depression can never happen again. but it's very much in the wake oof the time an idea that we can teach people certain skills and if they learn the skills we will all be okay spent the dark set of the personal-finance industry with helaine olen saturday night at 10 on after words on c-span2. look for more booktv online, like this on facebook. >> i think it's all an evolutionary process. you go into this role and my sense is that you never get comfortable if you're always pushing for change and growth, not just in yourself but in the issues you care about. you are never done. so there's never a point in time where you feel like, they are, i am now here and i can do this the same way all the time. it's always changing. they changed is given the status issues of the country, and you never know what those are going to be from one day to the next. so you have to be flexible and fluid, and open to revolve. >> the first ladies, their private and public lives. c-span is teaming up with the white house historical association f
and our goal is to educate people so that this great depression can never happen again. but it's very much in the wake oof the time an idea that we can teach people certain skills and if they learn the skills we will all be okay spent the dark set of the personal-finance industry with helaine olen saturday night at 10 on after words on c-span2. look for more booktv online, like this on facebook. >> i think it's all an evolutionary process. you go into this role and my sense is that you...
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she was doing everything she could to educate the many children in the camp. many of the syrian children have not gone -- have now gone two years knowing little else but war and misery and homelessness, losing friends and families and the ideal pray for radicals. this woman warned us that the syrian children and her words would seek revenge on those that did not help syria in its hour of greatest need. conflict has gone now for nearly two years. many americans assumed that by now a sun would have left power in the violence would have ended. it is not. 60,000 people are dead, and there is no end in sight. there is a dire need to restart the conversation and the congress across the country about america's role and responsibility in helping the syrian people. at eight of us would agree that at the center of this conversation is the realization that the indiscriminate and escalating use of airpower is one factor among all others that enables them to continue this onslaught against the syrian people. if you wish to be relevant to the conflict we must have a serious
she was doing everything she could to educate the many children in the camp. many of the syrian children have not gone -- have now gone two years knowing little else but war and misery and homelessness, losing friends and families and the ideal pray for radicals. this woman warned us that the syrian children and her words would seek revenge on those that did not help syria in its hour of greatest need. conflict has gone now for nearly two years. many americans assumed that by now a sun would...